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Amazon acquires Apple’s satellite partner Amazon: Today Amazon.com, Inc. and Globalstar, Inc. announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon will acquire Globalstar, enabling Amazon...

Amazon acquires Apple’s satellite partner (Link)

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Change what Time Machine backs up Time Machine used to be a mess. I would try it with each new macOS release, get frustrated, and give up. My incoming email from...

Change what Time Machine backs up

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This Week in Apple: Known unknows This week we’ll see all there isn’t to know about the foldable iPhone, how success is an issue for the MacBook Neo, and then look...

This Week in Apple: Known unknows (Member Post)

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Windows, RSS, and albino alligators Dan experiments on his wife with a MacBook Neo, and Jason gets frustrated with his morning reading....

Windows, RSS, and albino alligators (Member Podcast)

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Clic for Sonos My thanks to Clic for Sonos for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Clic for Sonos is the fastest native Sonos client for iPhone, iPad, Mac,...

Clic for Sonos (Sponsor)

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Rethinking RSS, newsletters, and how I read every morning Current in action, reading one of my newsletters. Every morning, I start my day with breakfast, a cup of tea, and my iPad. This is...

Rethinking RSS, newsletters, and how I read every morning

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Macs crash after 49 days of uptime Software developer Photon, whose product requires running a bunch of Macs to connect to iMessage, discovered a pretty major bug: Every Mac has a hidden...

Macs crash after 49 days of uptime (Link)

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A PC user spends two weeks with the MacBook Neo Like millions of people around the world, I have a mixed marriage: I've long used Macs, but my wife Kat's personal computer is a Windows...

A PC user spends two weeks with the MacBook Neo

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Trying out the MacBook Neo How does a PC user feel about switching to a MacBook Neo for two weeks? Dan is joined by special guest Kat Benesh to find...

Trying out the MacBook Neo (Member Podcast)

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Seeking entries in the Apple in the Enterprise 2026 report card survey Since 2021, Six Colors has been compiling an annual report card focusing on how Apple’s doing in large organizations, including businesses, education, and government. We...

Seeking entries in the Apple in the Enterprise 2026 report card survey (Link)

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Stolen Device Protection may protect you from accessing your own device You might have noticed that, after installing iOS 26.4, your iPhone is behaving differently. Some actions (like changing your password) require a one-hour wait, followed...

Stolen Device Protection may protect you from accessing your own device

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This Week in Apple: Tim is the walrus, goo goo g’joob Apple and the Apple community mark half a century, the company relents on security updates, and the iPhone is forever. Apple at 50 Happy 50th...

This Week in Apple: Tim is the walrus, goo goo g’joob (Member Post)

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‘Hello, World’ A breathtaking image, taken by a human being on the Artemis II spacecraft, of our entire planet: NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman...

‘Hello, World’ (Link)

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Anniversaries and future threats Clearing out the Apple 50th stories and pondering Apple’s greatest threats in the next 50....

Anniversaries and future threats (Member Podcast)

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Missed connections: Me and Apple Sadly, unlike so so many of my fellow long-time Apple fans, I have no picture of me with my first Mac. It’s probably just as...

Missed connections: Me and Apple

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Follow Artemis II’s progress with this web dashboard I'm not as much as a space nerd as Jason is, but I did watch last night's Artemis II launch with my wife and son...

Follow Artemis II’s progress with this web dashboard (Link)

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My life with the Mac, Apple, and Macworld Apple has turned 50, and this week I realized that I've been writing professionally about the company for two-thirds of its existence. (Excuse me while...

My life with the Mac, Apple, and Macworld (Macworld/Jason Snell)

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Apple releases iOS 18 security updates for iOS 26 holdouts Last December I complained that Apple was withholding iOS 18 security updates from iPhones capable of running iOS 26, leaving users who didn't want to...

Apple releases iOS 18 security updates for iOS 26 holdouts

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Apple At 50: Gonna be, gonna be golden The author, slightly more than half of Apple's lifetime ago. A 50th anniversary is a good time to reflect on your relationships, and it seems...

Apple At 50: Gonna be, gonna be golden

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Apple at 50: Apple, from rebel to empire? As Apple hits its half-century milestone, it seems like we're all of us waxing a bit rhapsodic about the company, its products, and their effects...

Apple at 50: Apple, from rebel to empire?

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50 years later, Apple still controls its destiny Museum piece. Photo: Alejandro Linares Garcia, CC BY-SA 3.0. I am usually so focused on Apple's present and future that I don't spend a lot...

50 years later, Apple still controls its destiny

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Apple at 50: My 10 most memorable moments The author (far right) at a certain Apple event 25 years ago. It's Apple's 50th anniversary — you might have read something about that lately....

Apple at 50: My 10 most memorable moments

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Another life changed by the Mac When I saw my friend Antony Johnson's post on Six Colors, I instantly thought, "yeah, me too." And as it happens, the very Mac model...

Another life changed by the Mac

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The Back Page: Dispatches from the Apple multiverse Yes, here in our universe, Apple is celebrating its 50th anniversary. A milestone! The company is looking back on its success, its technology prowess, and...

The Back Page: Dispatches from the Apple multiverse

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The Vergecast: Apple at 50 In addition to my two pieces on The Verge this week, I'm also on the Vergecast talking to David Pierce about Apple's past, present and...

The Vergecast: Apple at 50 (Link)

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Between Jobs: The triumphs and failures of Apple without Steve Jobs It’s a famous story on its way to becoming legendary: Apple cofounder Steve Jobs was pushed out of Apple in 1985, spent more than a...

Between Jobs: The triumphs and failures of Apple without Steve Jobs (The Verge/Jason Snell)

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This machine changed my life The Mac Plus. (Photo: Felix Winkelnkemper) Let me tell you how the Mac changed my life. In 1988 my high school form tutor, who was...

This machine changed my life

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Apple at 50: Some great Apple history books After I wrote my Wall Street Journal review of David Pogue's excellent Apple: The First 50 Years (Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books) my editor asked for...

Apple at 50: Some great Apple history books

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Time for your meds, Mr. Fleishman I have a mostly "love/not-hate" relationship with the Medications feature in the iPhone Health app. Having accrued and had treated a variety of conditions over...

Time for your meds, Mr. Fleishman

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Apple II Forever! When you think of Apple, you probably think of the iPhone, or maybe the Mac, or perhaps you’ve got fond memories of the iPod. But...

Apple II Forever! (The Verge/Jason Snell)

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